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Fedora 46 : containerd (2026-2887458a9f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 367392

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 46 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-2887458a9f advisory.

 Automatic update for containerd-2.4.2-1.fc46.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Thu Oct 15 2026 Bradley G Smith <[email protected]> - 2.4.2-1
 - Update to release v2.4.2
 - Resolves: rhbz#2535733
 - Resolves CVE-2026-41178: rhbz#2515054

 ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected containerd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2887458a9f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 367392

File Name: fedora_2026-2887458a9f.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/19/2026

Updated: 10/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41178

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:46, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:containerd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41178